Consultants are like politicians. Once a politician get's elected, their top priority, job one is... to get re-elected. Similarly with consultants, their primary job is to keep the gravy train... ooops, I mean contract going (plus, get rave reviews so other companies will hire them). They do this by doing anything whatever the person who signs their paycheck says. This time, they (consultants) are just an excuse Intel mgmt can point to saying... "see, this is what the consultants benchmark!" However, in reality, the consultants just goes around parroting and cherry picks data to support what Management wants to do.